KNOX – A punk legend’s advice for new city councillors: be a sponge
PUNK LEGENDS D.O.A., fronted by the aging but still raging Joey Shithead, play the Victoria Event Centre this Saturday. On Tuesday, Coun. Joe Keithley will ponder [Continue]
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KNOX – Empress reigns on haunted-hotel list thanks to Lizzie the chambermaid — among others
CHAMBERMAID LIZZIE McGRATH stepped onto the Empress Hotel fire escape to say her rosary, just as she did every night before retiring to her sixth-storey room. Alas, what [Continue]
KNOX – Resolutions: If at first you don’t succeed, why keep trying?
I WENT TO the wrong side of the strait for a Canucks game last week, my first since the players wore mullets. “Is Dennis Ververgaert still in the line-up?” I asked. No, [Continue]
KNOX – Money in, money out: What you’ll see in 2023
THE FUTURE, as demonstrated by A) the pandemic and B) the Canucks, can be wildly unpredictable. Sometimes, though, we know exactly what to expect, at least as it pertains to [Continue]
KNOX – No, a pet under the Christmas tree is not a good surprise
NO, DON’T SURPRISE anyone with a puppy for Christmas. A homemade gift certificate for a new pet, maybe. You could wrap it up with a leash or litter box. But an actual [Continue]
KNOX- 25 years later, I’m ready to forgive Martha for ruining Christmas
FOR THE RECORD, I no longer want Martha Stewart to die. Sure, I might have daydreamed about her catching a mild case of COVID, one that would – and here’s irony! – [Continue]
KNOX – Customers are feeling boxed in by Canada Post’s fuel surcharges
I MAILED A PAPERBACK to Edmonton last week. The postage cost $21, more than the book itself. No, I told the postal clerk, I don’t want you to charter a jet and read it to [Continue]
KNOX – After Holodomor, more grim history for Ukrainians to pass down
IT WAS THE FROST-DAMAGED POTATOES that saved Iryna Starostina’s starving grandparents. They had buried and forgotten about the vegetables but dug them up after the Soviets [Continue]
KNOX – The day, 80 years ago, when our air force accidentally attacked Canada
EIGHTY YEARS AGO, the Second World War came home to the Saanich Peninsula. Literally. On Nov. 16, 1942, a Mrs. A. Bramwell was doing the dishes when a bomb plowed through her [Continue]
KNOX – Queen’s portrait is gone from B.C. Ferries, but so is the King’s
B.C. FERRIES is keelhauling the King. Following the death of Queen Elizabeth II, the corporation has decided to not only remove her portrait from its vessels, but to rid [Continue]
KNOX – Private calls in public places? Consider them an invitation
I WAS ABOARD a ferry the other day, sailing back to civilization from Toronto-By-The-Fraser, when I overheard a fellow passenger discussing the “great sex” she planned [Continue]
KNOX – Six months after his house was torched, priest wants to look ahead
POLICE STILL DON’T KNOW who torched Father Yuriy Vyshnevskyy’s home while the family was inside. It has been six months since Vyshnevskyy and his family escaped an [Continue]
KNOX – An election message from me, your beloved leader
MY FELLOW CITIZENS of Dysfunction-By-The-Sea, there is good news: I have decided to come to your rescue. How? By elbowing onto your ballot as a last-minute candidate in the [Continue]
KNOX – No, Henderson’s goal wasn’t just another hockey moment
Here’s a shot! Henderson made a wild stab for it and fell. Here’s another shot. Right in front. They score! Henderson has scored for Canada! — Foster Hewitt, Moscow, [Continue]
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